James Salter - Burning the Days Recollection

Written by James Salter. Themes include Biography & Autobiography, Literary Figures, Military, Literary Criticism, American.

This brilliant memoir brings to life an entire era through the sensibility of one of America's finest authors. Recollecting fifty years of love, desire and friendship, "Burning the Days" traces the life of a singular man, who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before reinventing himself as a writer in the New York of the 1960s. It features - in Salter's uniquely beautiful style - some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written, together with portraits of the actors, directors and authors who influenced him. This is a book that through its sheer sensual force not only recollects the past, but reclaims it.

'A masterwork of memory, deeply impressive and deeply moving' " Time Out "

'Salter writes wonderfully of a world most of his readers will never have known' "Observer"

'A wise and sensual memoir. Salter writes his self-portrait by focusing on what has shaped him, by showing what he has loved and admired and feared to become in others. You cannot put it down' Michael Ondaatje

Format: Paperback

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